Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-03-12
A Tip to Tepers.

! cause they were badly Dofle W tie
| stomach, and the wines because they con-
| tanned tannin and extractiye matters and
| differed SO much in their effects. He
| found that two grains Of hydrochloride of
| cocaine to the pint Of pure wine was the
proper preparation and produced all the
| beneficial effects and none Of the deieter-
| ious results. Then he began a series OF
experiments with hypodermic injections
Of the hydrochloride to astertain whether
the stories about the cocaine habit We're
true or false.
AT first injected one grain and expert
enced an exhilaration Of spirits similar to
that produced by two or three glasses OF
champagne" said DR.. Hammond to a re-
porter. Ny powers OF Imagination In
creased. The physical sensation was i
| delightful, undulating thrill. | was in a
very happy frame Of mind-a soelable
| mood-and no doubt would have been
quite agreeable company. The after ct
| fects were inability to sleep until 5 in the
morning, n a headache when got up.
The next night I took two grains, and In
addition to the sensations described | felt
a desire TO write. | had begun Il letter to
Il friend, and under the influence OF the
drug | extended what would have been a
missiye Of moderate length to an eplstle
covering a wide variety Of topics and
forty-eight pages of paper. 1t proved to
be correctly written and coherent and
gave much satisfaction to the receiver, but
/ found that | had treated diffusely OF
many things that ordinarily | would not
deem worth mentioning.
If a man We're DESTROYS of writing to
fill space or utterly exhausting a given
subject ever to the most thrilling details,
| would recommend him to fill his ink
stnnd. get a ream or two of paper and
plenty Of pens, and have a physician give
him a hypodermic injection OF cocaine. Ii
you want to condense your subject don't
take cocaine in large doses. No doubt a
moderate quantity taken in wine will
stimulate the Imagination and enable one
to write more brilliantly and with less
effort than he otherwise could. Eugene
Sue never wrote without a bottle of cham
payne at his elbow, and the luxurlance OF
his imagination displayed in the Wander
ing Jew may be attributed, in part, to the
effects of the wine. The difference be-
.1aalnJ 80 +I,,,,lo-fa : |
that alcohol has a tendency to lower the
mental and moral tone and brutaliZe the
nature, while cocaine has a refining,
softening effect. Under the influence of
moderate doses | became rather setimen-
tai and said nice things to everybody. The
world was going very well, and | had q
favorable opinion Of my fellow men and
women There was not a bit of pugnacity
about me, and | didn't want to fight, ar
que or dispute with any one
The next time | increased the dose to
three grains, which unlimbered my tongue
in the most astonishing way. wanted to
talk, and I did talk. not in the oratorical
manner, but was just purely loquacious.
When nobody was present | talked to my
self. There was no ~disarrangement OF
the mental faculties, no disorder Of the
process of thought. There was an alb
quickening of the faculties; the
operations were rapid and the i'm
agination vivid. Headache followed.
Then I doubled the quantity of the
and became somewhat intoSica-
ted. The %scribbling propensity returned,
and I wrote voluminously. I was prepar
ing a medical work, and my mind was
full Of the subject matter. What | wrote
was an introduction to the book, and |
it a very brilliant production.
Ideas came thick and fast, and | was per
that my composition work was
to eclipse anything that had ever
lone in that line. When l put it away
and went to bed I congratulated myself
lat I should be satisfied with my nights
work when | should read it over.
Il didn't sleep at all that night. When
| looked over my famous introduction /
found it to be arrant nonsense. Each SEN
.ence was complete and coherent in itself,
out none had any relation to the others, al
all were in the general line of the
/ was treating in the book. The
stuff read as a whole very much like a
iream. 1t was a mess of ragged, discon-
aected ideas and notions, set down in ads
fasion and containing matter that
lid not belong to an Introduction, But in
,pite Of the rampant disorder Of ideas